The Media-TIC building will be the nucleus connecting the space between the Media and TIC clusters of the 22@Barcelona district, a meeting point for companies and professionals. Developed by the Consortium of the Zona Franca and the 22@Barcelona company, the Media-TIC building stands at the junction of Carrer Roc Boronat and Carrer Sancho de Ãvila.

Media-TIC covers an area of 14,000 m2 with spaces for companies, research and training, and gives priority to spatial intercommunication, the interrelation with the 22@Barcelona district, of which it is a part, and the development of synergies as befitting a cluster space.

A highly personal creation of the Cloud-9 architect's office, led by
Enric Ruiz-Geli, the building seeks to be iconic in the digital world
and a vehicle for the dissemination of new technologies, while being
designed as a socially open civic space.

The building is in the shape of a cube and formed by large iron beams
covered in a plastic coating of inflatable bubbles, which offer
glimpses of the fluorescent structure of the building. The attractive
covering also has a functional utility as a way of regulating light and
temperature, primarily preventing 114 tons of CO2 a year from escaping
from the building, and offering a 20% saving on climate control.

Every facade of the Media-TIC is different: from the outside, they
reveal parts of their interior spaces and give a diverse plasticity,
while from the inside they offer spectacular views.

The translucent and innovative covering, ETFE (Ethylene Tetrafluor
Ethylene), recently approved as a construction material, is in itself
an innovation in Spanish building: it acts as an external covering and
a mobile sunscreen that helps light to penetrate and affords heat
savings.

The ETFE skin is activated using pneumatic mechanisms thanks to
âluxometerâ sensors that automatically and independently activate the
chamber inflation and deflation devices according to how much solar
energy there is. These luxometers are energy independent.